Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, t...
Alfred and Ivan come from two extremely different worlds. Ivan from a dirty, run down shack. Alfred from a beautiful white mansion. Neither are very happy with their lives, they both have so many different responsibilities. But once in a while, the two boys have some time to escape their lives and meet in the clearing...
"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for h...